ADi)>;:>I»A AND roKKICiKiNPA. 825 



N.W. New Guinea). Head and back of neck brownish drab, with 

 pale diab (fawn-drab) bases to the hairs; underside pale fawn- 

 drab, tinged with dull tawny-olive in a small patch at centre of 

 breast and belly. 



Forearm 76 o, lirsl diyit (total length, c.u.) .'3.'}, second (metacarpal, 

 first phalanx, second-third phalanx) .'57-1-84-6, third 52 -|- 36 -f 47, 

 fourth 47 -f 31 +31, fifth o0 + 26-5-l-28, tibia 29, foot (c.u.) 

 22 mm. 



Skull — total length 3(5, condylo-basal length 34-8, orbit to tip of 

 nasals 9"S, width of brain-case at zygomata 15*5, zygomatic width 

 13-2, across m'-m' externally lO'S, between p*-p* 6"5, orbit ij'5, 

 mandible 29-2, c-m" (crowns) 14, c-m^ (crowns) 15'3 mm. 



p' (lengtli, breadth ) 2-7 X 2-2, p' 2-8 x 2-1, m' 3 x I'S, m' 1-6 x 1-2, 

 p, 0-7 X 0-9, P3 2-6 x 1-0, p^ 2-7x2, m^ 2-6x1 -6, m.^ 2-1x1-4, 

 mj 13x0-8 mm. 



a. cJ ad. sk. ; Pdi-imau, Miuiika R., New Guinea Expedi- 11.11.11.6. 

 skull. Dutch New Guinea, tion [P.]. 



250' ; 10 Oct. I'JIO 

 (,Gnt/ C. Shortridge). 



I'age 466. Dobsonia magna. 



Additional material of D. moluccensis and D. magna, from Buru, 

 Amboina, C'erani, and Dutch Xew Guinea (Mimika River), obtained 

 during the British Xew Guinea Expedition, shows (as might indeed 

 be expected) that these two very closely related forms had better 

 be considered only subspecifically distinct. They differ only in 

 size, and, as proved by the subjoined measurements, this difference, 

 though in most cases conspicuous, is in the whole series only one of 

 average. The specimens measured of D. moluccensis moluccensis are 

 from Buru (2), Amboina (4), Ceram (2), and Aru Islands (6) ; 

 those of Z>. Hi. matjna (10) from the places enumerated p. 477 and 

 from Mimika lliver. It is easy to see that some of the measure- 

 ments of botli forms are still far from representing the real minima 

 and maxima, so that with more complete material the "overlapping" 

 may be found even greater, 



I>L m. nioluccensir. B. m. magna. 



Mi.v. Max. Min. Ma.'c. 



Skull, tot.nl leiigili 58-.5- 60-.3 o9-2- 63-S mm. 



Mandible from condyle 4(5-8-48-8 47-8-51-5 ,. 



c-m=, crowns 24-5-26-3 25-2-278 „ 



rorearni lol! .') 14(5 146 -152-5 ,. 



Third metacTrpal 785 88 88-5-95 5 „ 



Page 47 1 . Dobsonia viridis. 



The species has been divided into two geographical races, as 

 follows : — 



8 n. Dobsonia viridis umbrosa, Thos. 



Dobsonia viridis umbr.osa, Thumas., Ann. ^- Mag, A". JI. ^^) v. p. 384 

 (1 Apr. 1910: Bui-u ; Gerani : "Aru"i'»a niispriut for '- nin-ii "l. 



